With Kerra as our Odysseus, we’re getting to see a lot of different mini-empires without actually traveling very far. As a former comparative politics grad student, I was very much interested in the notion of a “balkanized” Sith Empire - where it was really lots of different fiefdoms run by people with their own ideas about how best to rule the galaxy through Sith power. Everything is so fragmented in Sith space in this era, it’s a much different setting. JJM – The idea came from Dark Horse’s Randy Stradley, who was interested in setting a series in a time in which the Republic and the Jedi weren’t really going to be a big factor.
What made you decide to opt for this particular period of Star Wars history? MN – Knight Errant: Escape comes closely after the first hugely popular Knight Errant series, which along with the 2011 novel introduced us to a new era with new threats and situations. Seriously, yeah, with the fact that there were comics and novels expanding on the movies early on, and also action figures and ships available from Kenner, it was pretty easy for me as a kid to visualize Star Wars as expanding beyond the movies. MN – What sparked your ongoing interest in the Star Wars saga? So they’re all very different, but also very satisfying. And Indy was a blast, especially because it meant going to Lucasfilm to read the script.Īnd Lost Tribe of the Sith has let me take the prose-comics combo in yet another direction - as we’re dealing with stories that are separated by many years and often centuries. Knight Errant with its prose and comics portions has really allowed me to focus on a single character - Kerra Holt - while also developing a realm more or less from scratch. Knights of the Old Republic, of course, gave us the chance to build some long-form stories that you don’t see much in comics any more I think the soon-to-be-ten volumes of trade paperbacks hold together very nicely as a single narrative. JJM – They’re all different, all satisfying on different levels. All succesful, but which project gave you the most satisfaction? MN – Since we last spoke your Star Wars writings have taken you from a fan-favourite 50 issue run on Knights of the Old Republic to Lost Tribe of the Sith, the adaptation of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull to Knight Errant. We continue our look back to interviews conducted in years past by members of the Fantha Tracks team, and our 2012 interview with one of the saga’s most prolific authors – John Jackson Miller.
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